Senior Engineering Manager – Backend
Scale a fintech platform with 200k users and $1B+ in sales, lead a strong backend team, own strategy and reliability, and shape how engineering drives product impact across Europe.
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Location: Geneva (Hybrid)
Experience: 7+ years in backend engineering, with management experience
Languages: English (C1+) and French (C1)
Contract: Full-time employee
Team: Backend (7 developers), working closely with Frontend and Product
Reports to: CPO
The Role
As Engineering Manager – Backend, you will own the performance, organization, and evolution of the backend engineering team.
You will work closely with the CPO, Product Manager, Product Owners, and Tech Leads to align engineering capacity with product priorities, while ensuring the platform remains reliable, scalable, and maintainable.
The backend team already has strong technical expertise. Your role is to bring structure, ownership, and long-term vision to the engineering organization.
You will define and drive a forward-looking technical roadmap (6–12 months), anticipate platform risks, and lead structural improvements to support the company’s growth.
This role combines team leadership, engineering strategy, and strong technical credibility.
What You Will Do
Team Leadership
Manage and mentor backend engineers through regular 1-to-1 meetings
Own performance reviews and career development plans
Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, quality, and accountability
Lead hiring decisions and scale the backend team
Engineering Organization
Own the allocation of backend engineers across squads and initiatives
Define and maintain a clear balance between product delivery and technical investment
Drive coordination across squads and ensure alignment at the backend level
Establish scalable ways of working and improve overall team efficiency
Platform Reliability & Operations
Own platform reliability, performance and scalability outcomes
Define and implement incident management and operational processes
Establish operational ownership through rotations (on-call, release management, support roles)
Drive improvements in monitoring, observability and system resilience
Technical Leadership & Strategy
Define and drive the backend technical roadmap in collaboration with Tech Leads
Lead key architectural decisions and ensure long-term platform coherence
Identify risks early (scalability, performance, technical debt) and proactively address them
Set and enforce engineering standards across the backend team
Contribute to critical technical topics when needed (CI/CD, infrastructure, monitoring, platform tooling)
The role remains hands-on when necessary, with around 20–30% of time dedicated to technical topics.
Current Technical Environment
Backend
Ruby / Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
Redis / Sidekiq
Elasticsearch
Infrastructure & Monitoring
Heroku
AWS
Cloudflare
Sentry
New Relic
Engineering Workflow
CircleCI
Bitbucket
Jira
Confluence
What We Are Looking For
Strong backend engineering background building production systems
Solid experience with Ruby on Rails in production environments
Proven experience managing or leading backend engineering teams
Experience working on high-traffic or transactional platforms
Ability to drive both execution and long-term technical strategy
Strong organizational and communication skills
Experience collaborating closely with product teams
Nice to Have
Experience working on e-commerce or fintech platforms
Experience with logistics, order management, or payment systems
Experience managing distributed or remote engineering teams
- Department
- IT department
- Locations
- Geneva
- Remote status
- Hybrid
Geneva
Workplace and culture
Hey there! 👋 We’re GOLD AVENUE, and we’re here to shake up the world of precious metal investment. If you think gold is just an old and dusty metal, well, our goal is to prove you wrong.
Do most precious metals online resellers you know have a 1990’s looking website, a long list of hard-to-understand products, somewhat cheap and obscure prices, and no solution to store or resell your gold? Well, we have the opposite:
- A UX-friendly website: making it as simple as buying socks (are socks easy to buy?)
- a brand new mobile app: putting gold investment at your fingertips
- Clean and crisp design: we like it easy on the eye
- Transparent and simple pricing: because we hate complexity, don’t you?
- The best all-in-one solution on the market: or should we say… in Europe?
- A multilingual and expert customer service: did we say we like to make things simple?
- Enjoyable educational content: helping you understand what makes gold tick
That’s because we’re on a mission to do things different, and make gold investment accessible to everyone.
Why you’ll love working with us:
- 💥 To make an impact: Your work will directly help people across Europe invest smarter and feel more secure about their future.
- 🌱 To grow with us: We’re all about learning and growing together. Whether you’re a newbie or a pro, there’s always room to level up here.
- 🌴 To send you great vibes: We believe work should be fun and fulfilling. Join a team that’s friendly, supportive, and ready to celebrate every win, big or small.
- 😎 To enjoy a flexible work life: Need to work from home sometimes? No problem. We value balance and understand life’s demands.
Why we love working here ❤️
We might be 7 years old but we keep the positive startup mentality that's been with us from the start. Our company culture mixes a keep pushing attitude with a focus on our team's well-being in this fast-paced and often remote world.
In other words, we care about being flexible, caring, and human with our team, and we welcome anyone who brings a unique perspective, some cool ideas and skills, and most importantly a sense of ownership and hard work to accomplish great things together!
Want more perks? Well, we’ve got more! Office in Geneva’s old town with a shaded courtyard for summer lunches, showers for those who like a run around the lake, ping-pong table to show your skills, free snacks, coffee, tea, fruits, in the kitchen, etc. And because it’s not only about work, we also like to organize a yearly summer company retreat to enjoy a few days all together in a nice location, and of course company parties and afterworks throughout the year.
Who we are? We’re a diverse crew with a shared passion for making precious metals accessible to everyone. We’re proud to be leaders in the market, but we’re even prouder of our awesome team. If you’re looking for a place where your ideas matter and your work makes a difference, GOLD AVENUE is the spot for you.
Join us in shaping the future of precious metal investments. Let’s create something great together!
About GOLD AVENUE
With more than 60 years in the industry, MKS PAMP GROUP has always searched for innovative ways to move across the value chain to better serve our customers. With the creation of GOLD AVENUE, we wanted to get closer to our end clients in order to serve them straight from the source and directly share with them our passion for precious metals.